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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8205 on FreeBSD
Date: 25 Nov 1995 10:17:02 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:

> > The drive does work, but 
> >it is real slow and the mt command will not return drive status telling 
> >me that it is an unknown tape drive.

> the 'st' utility from freeBSD 1.1 was accidentally left out
> when 2.0 was made. It was re-incorporated in 2.0.5
> and then combined with it's parent 'mt' for 2.1 (I think that's the 
> time scale)

It's already in 2.0.5 this way.  It was too odd to have two utilities
with 80 % identical functionality, that's why i didn't reincarnate
`st' by its old name, but merged its functionality into the well-known
`mt' instead (where everybody seemed to expect it anyway).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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